Back in 2012, then St Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, was at the arbitration table (or at least Kevin Demoff and Stan’s reps were); submitting renovation proposals back and forth with the St Louis Convention and Visitors Commission. Fans in St Louis and Southern California alike watched the proceedings with various levels of stress, while reading tealeaves and bickered back and forth about where the Rams would ultimately end up playing.
Simultaneously in early 2012, a bidding war for ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers was heating up. Several months earlier, Major League Baseball had finally been able to get the Dodgers’ despised owner Frank McCourt to put the team up for auction, following his filing for bankruptcy.